By Leslie | March 10, 2009
Here are the February sold statistics for Camarillo in our new expanded 14 month format. The homes sold and condos sold data comes from Camarillo MLS listings.
By Leslie | March 10, 2009
Ventura real estate activity is directly reflected in homes pending that have gone into escrow. This data is taken directly from the Ventura MLS and provides a monthly and quarterly summary since January 2007.
By Leslie | March 10, 2009
Oxnard real estate activity is directly reflected in homes pending that have gone into escrow. This data is taken directly from the Oxnard MLS and provides a monthly and quarterly summary since January 2007.
By Leslie | March 10, 2009
Camarillo real estate activity is directly reflected in homes pending that have gone into escrow. This data is taken directly from the Camarillo MLS and provides a monthly and quarterly summary since January 2007.
By Leslie | March 6, 2009
Realtors can use all sorts of acronyms, buzz words – stuff that only those of us in the business understand. COE stands for Close of Escrow. The +1 (or 2 or 3) means the seller gets to stay in their (former) home after escrow has closed – meaning it’s now on the buyer’s dime! But why would a seller want to stay in their (former) home after escrow has closed? And why has the “17 day thing” changed all the old ways of doing things? Read the rest of this article »
By Don | March 5, 2009
I hadn’t worked on the Tiger Moth for several weeks and was getting antsy. But on Sunday afternoon I made it back out to Camarillo airport to continue working on attaching the wing tip bow, but when I looked closely at my previous work – arrrrhhh…!
I had carefully epoxy’d it to those triangular pieces off the main and rear spars, used bungee cords and clamps to secure it tightly, but… Read the rest of this article »
By Don | March 4, 2009
The U.S. Treasury Department just issued rules this morning allowing troubled homeowners the opportunity to do a loan modification.
A parallel story line is that the House is coming closer to voting on legislation (maybe tomorrow?) that would allow bankruptcy judges to “cram down” loan terms on lenders. One potential provision to this legislation is that homeowners must first have attempted to do a loan modification prior to seeking relief in bankruptcy court.
By Don | March 2, 2009
On Friday I met with an investor who owns a number of rental properties by the SeaBee base. I told him, “I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news”. The good news is that inventory is way down from last summer. The bad news (for investors like him) is that property values have plunged. Here is detailed data of active listings, homes in escrow, and sold listings for a micro section of Oxnard: Read the rest of this article »